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This paper compares the characters of Emma Bovary from "Madame Bovary" and Dmitri Gurov from "The Lady with the Dog," and argues that it is the characters' own attributes that impact the way in which they move within their society. Bibliography lists two sources.
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the character of Dmitri Gurov from Chekhovs short story "The Lady with the Dog," but he too wins our sympathies. This paper compares the two and discusses the fact that
in their respective societies, they do not have the same degree of freedom. Discussion The short answer to the question of why they are not entitled to the same liberties
is no great mystery: Emma, being a woman, is not allowed the same freedoms accorded to Dmitri, a man. This differentiation between what is "appropriate" behavior for the sexes has
been a matter of ongoing debate for centuries: society approves of mens philandering (to some degree at least, after all "boys will be boys") but condemns women for doing the
same thing. Whats more interesting than the inherent unfairness of gender bias is how the characters are portrayed in the two works. Madame Bovary is "marked by the over-differentiation
of the sexes which characterises [sic] patriarchal society" (Williams). That is, in Emmas world, there is a clearly understood code of behavior from which she, and to a lesser extent
her husband Charles, are not supposed to deviate. Perhaps the clearest illustration of the ridiculousness of this sort of discrimination is in the education the two receive. Charles is much
less intelligent, intuitive and passionate than Emma, and yet he "receives an education as a health officer which equips him for a useful role in society whilst Emma, despite her
greater intelligence and ability, receives an education in the Rouen convent-school which provides her with skills which have little practical relevance to her subsequent life" (Williams). She is not the
first woman to find her life defined by her gender and by the expectations of others, nor will she be the last. Her society is rigidly divided by sex,
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